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| Thread ID: 139764 | 2015-06-24 01:59:00 | Still not dead - | decibel (11645) | PC World Chat |
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| 1403528 | 2015-06-26 08:19:00 | Even for M$, ME was a record high in plumbing the depths. I hope it settled the bets as to just how bad an inOperative System can be, and still sell at least 100 copies. Some say it actually was the Y2K bug SP1. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1403529 | 2015-06-26 09:34:00 | Quoting from Wiki, this is what made ME crap: "Windows ME restricted support for real mode MS-DOS. As a result, IO.SYS in Windows ME disregards CONFIG.SYS, COMMAND.COM and WIN.COM and directly executes VMM32.VXD. In its default configuration the system would neither boot into an MS-DOS command prompt nor exit to DOS from Windows; real mode drivers such as ANSI.SYS could not be loaded and older applications that require real mode could not be run. Microsoft argued that the change improved the speed and reliability of the boot process" en.wikipedia.org Though it was advantageous to copy over some ME system files into WIN 98SE to get an improved Win98. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1403530 | 2015-06-27 00:12:00 | Incidentally, 32 bit Windows 8.1 still has the Win ME command.com | Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 1403531 | 2015-06-27 00:46:00 | Incidentally, 32 bit Windows 8.1 still has the Win ME command.com No surprises there. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1403532 | 2015-07-02 12:12:00 | I'm glad I don't have an account at that bank Why? They are still getting security updates and MS wouldn't want to offend or let down their commercial clients. A quick software tweak and any XP SP3 user can get the same updates. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 1403533 | 2015-07-02 20:17:00 | Why? They are still getting security updates By forking out extra money. A quick software tweak and any XP SP3 user can get the same updates. Not officially, and these "updates" can easily break the OS. |
pcuser42 (130) | ||
| 1403534 | 2015-07-02 21:25:00 | By forking out extra money. Not officially, and these "updates" can easily break the OS. This is like the "Genuine Microsoft" seal. ;) |
R2x1 (4628) | ||
| 1403535 | 2015-07-02 22:52:00 | Not officially, and these "updates" can easily break the OS. This is like the "Genuine Microsoft" seal. ;) Yeah, the official ones have been doing the same thing on Windows 7 a fair bit in recent times... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1403536 | 2015-07-03 02:31:00 | I remember the days of using a Vic20...sigh! RIP Vic20. :crying Ditto the BBCmicro and its 1 second boot time (OS was stored in ROM) I have been caught out by the demise of XP. My expensive USB1 slide/negative scanner doesn't work with Win7. (Free to anyone in Wellington) |
BBCmicro (15761) | ||
| 1403537 | 2015-07-03 11:01:00 | Not officially, and these "updates" can easily break the OS. I'd be very surprised if Microsoft were silly enought to upset their business clients, in particular the Banking fraternity, so I'm pretty confident that my XP is in safe hands. To date all security updates have loaded OK and given no problems. I seem to recall that there were about 30 updates waiting when I first enabled the downloads and all worked fine. I added the tweak to our second computer (the one that Mrs T uses) and it loaded the full backlog of updates without a hitch, then I did the same for our old XP laptop with the same result. Three out of three seems good odds to me. Bear in mind that these are all official Microsoft security updates, not some shonky after-market botch-up, and I'll bet they test them far more strenuously for the World of Finance than they ever did for us 'ordinary folk'. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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